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obama hasn't fundamentally changed obama's political sfraukture. he goes onto declare that "republicans just have a perception problem with hispanics. a perception problem? does he understand the amount of change that we've seen happen in this country? and how people are not just talking about perception? but reality and the realities have changed? >> well, i think carl rove of 2012 needs to have a conversation with carl rove of 2004 when he realized in 2004, carl rove nuf that he needed the hispanic vote. and he recognized he didn't need every single catholic and he didn't need every single person of color. he just needed a percentage off the top in order to move the republican agenda forward. since then, the republican party has gone off the deep enld. and they're also losing, as a result of caterering to the tea party so quickly. they're also actually losing a lot of moderate republicans. not only is the country more diverse, its's younger and it has a lot of single women and it has asians running and african americans and latinos. it's a whole
obama hasn't fundamentally changed obama's political sfraukture. he goes onto declare that "republicans just have a perception problem with hispanics. a perception problem? does he understand the amount of change that we've seen happen in this country? and how people are not just talking about perception? but reality and the realities have changed? >> well, i think carl rove of 2012 needs to have a conversation with carl rove of 2004 when he realized in 2004, carl rove nuf that he...
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not even the obama phenomenon matches the enthusiasm level that's here. could something change in three years? of course. three years a long time. but, remember, it's not really three years. if she wants to make a decision, she has to make a decision by next spring, spring of '14. if she make that is decision, she by and large preempts the democratic field. >> what do you tell joe biden that he should do between now and then to prepare to run if she doesn't run but prepare to hit the parachute if she does run? how does he prepare both? >> well, he does everything he's been doing. he goes at it like he's going to be a candidate because i think there's still a decent chance that hillary will decide not to run. i wouldn't bet on it but i think there's a decent chance and then joe becomes the front-runner. joe should continue to make contact, talk to givers. the problem for joe is, and people do love and respect joe, and i'm in that category, but the givers, the people who will decide who really is the most powerful candidate, they're all -- they all like joe
not even the obama phenomenon matches the enthusiasm level that's here. could something change in three years? of course. three years a long time. but, remember, it's not really three years. if she wants to make a decision, she has to make a decision by next spring, spring of '14. if she make that is decision, she by and large preempts the democratic field. >> what do you tell joe biden that he should do between now and then to prepare to run if she doesn't run but prepare to hit the...
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the political director recommended that president obama pulverize is g.o.p. declare war on g.o.p. >> greg: so what? what difference does it make? >> bob: i like obama. i want to see him successful. >> greg: good point. if you want him to be successful. criticism helps him. the fact is he is not a successful president because the media doesn't hold his feet to the fire. >> eric: this puts fox news property and center on the map. it's proof that bob admitted main stream media has given president obama easy go of it. you need balance. other side of the story. >> andrea: badge of honor. fox news presents both sides of the story. the other side takes the obama talking points so he would do some good to actually come on fox. all right. here we are face to face. if president bush would haven't gone out and done any tough interviews the liberals would be going crazy if he did entertainment tonight. >> bob: can we let bush do his painting and stop bringing him up? >> andrea: that's ironic. >> eric: do you let sparkles play football? >> greg: not anymore. >> kimberly:
the political director recommended that president obama pulverize is g.o.p. declare war on g.o.p. >> greg: so what? what difference does it make? >> bob: i like obama. i want to see him successful. >> greg: good point. if you want him to be successful. criticism helps him. the fact is he is not a successful president because the media doesn't hold his feet to the fire. >> eric: this puts fox news property and center on the map. it's proof that bob admitted main stream...
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center which is exactly what president obama is doing right now while the nra occupies the extreme political fringe opposing common sense things that 9 out of 10 americans support. >> julian, let me follow up on that. i agree with you. at the same time at the same point we're going to need a cadre of republican votes to get these things done. the more they fracture, yes, we can stand back and kind of let it happen. at the same time, we've got to make sure we're able to get the republican votes that we need to make sure we actually deliver on the promise. >> and i think that's exactly right, karen. and i think what you do to my earlier point is you begin to identify those 30 to 40 republicans that you think you can get, and you build out these coalitions in their districts. that can be done in a number of places as we have seen from some of the polling data, a number of republican districts. on guns you do exactly what you did, what mothers against drunk driving did in the 1980s when they flipped president reagan on drunk driving laws. this is old-fashioned retail political organizing in repu
center which is exactly what president obama is doing right now while the nra occupies the extreme political fringe opposing common sense things that 9 out of 10 americans support. >> julian, let me follow up on that. i agree with you. at the same time at the same point we're going to need a cadre of republican votes to get these things done. the more they fracture, yes, we can stand back and kind of let it happen. at the same time, we've got to make sure we're able to get the republican...
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the dow has more than doubled under president obama but should he take any credit for it. >>> landing in political trouble, legal troubles may be ahead. >>> if you're among the millions who watch the super bowl just for the commercials, we'll point out the controversial ones you won't want to miss. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in the situation room. today wall street reached a milestone we haven't seen in years. for the first time since 2007, the dow jones industrial average climbed above the 14,000 mark. the average has more than doubled since bottoming out at 6547, 6,547 just after president obama took office back in 2009. let's get quickly to alison kosik. she's at the new york stock exchange. it's just above 14,000, alison. >> it is. what's interesting, as we see the dow cross over 14 thourk for the first time in five years, believe it or not, not everybody thinks it's a big deal. some people say it's a nice round number that we like to talk about and others say, yes, it is a milestone after the economy pretty much fell to pieces. now this is a sign that things are finally come cannin
the dow has more than doubled under president obama but should he take any credit for it. >>> landing in political trouble, legal troubles may be ahead. >>> if you're among the millions who watch the super bowl just for the commercials, we'll point out the controversial ones you won't want to miss. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in the situation room. today wall street reached a milestone we haven't seen in years. for the first time since 2007, the dow jones industrial average...
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and i think that president obama gave a terrific inaugural address. i was so pleased by his words on climate, for example, and i know we'll have a chance to come back to that. it's only one of the six drivers of change here. but on immigration i think he drove that issue home. as he did on gay rights which i thought was a wonderful part of the speech. and i think that we are seeing our nation change right before our eyes. partly as a result of this election. >> you have changed in december of 2012, you wrote a piece in rolling stone, very tough on the president. >> i think it was back in the summer of 2012. >> tough on the president, saying it wasn't using the bully pulpit. saying he hadn't done all he could on climate change and yet once you saw the inaugural speech you seem to have changed your sense of him and your assessment of what he is prepared to do, that perhaps he was prepared to do, what you had hoped he would do in the first term and move on climate change. >> well, i think that a lot has happened over the last year. and the piece you refe
and i think that president obama gave a terrific inaugural address. i was so pleased by his words on climate, for example, and i know we'll have a chance to come back to that. it's only one of the six drivers of change here. but on immigration i think he drove that issue home. as he did on gay rights which i thought was a wonderful part of the speech. and i think that we are seeing our nation change right before our eyes. partly as a result of this election. >> you have changed in...
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obama learned this early on. he had a four year head start and with his data machine, they built a kind of grassroots tactical edge that is the model of politics. my favorite example of this is that the obama campaign actually hired a guy in cleveland who is sole job it was to go to work shops all day he'd go to one barbershop, then another, he'd sit around talk to people, what are the hopes and dreams. what is going on in the family. what are their financial problems. so when it came time to turn them out on election day, it's like turning out your friend. now i don't care how much money you put into media buys you cannot done kate that connection with voters. it seems that strategists are catching on. but there has to be a caveat. 2012 was not 2010. 2010 i would say was a policy referendum on policy issues, healthcare, bailout spending. 2012 at the end of the day was a personality contest at the presidential level. mitt romney was the next white guy in line and like bob dole. no doubt republicans will lose that
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we'll have to see how and if she re-engages in politics and whether she's better at it the next time around than she was when she lost to barack obama. >> that's why it is such hard and personal question. the vice president of the united states, joe biden, would be a formidable contender. he would be the oldest man. hillary clinton is just behind him. there is an age question, a health question. if you look at rest of the field, no offense to governor cuomo or o'malley or hickenlooper or anybody else out there, they're not in hillary clinton's league. when they come to her in six months or 18 months and say here is the data, we can raise the money, she has to make such an intensely personal decision, do i want to get back to being so popular on a bipartisan basis around the world, not just the country, to being that polarizing figure again. think how important she's been in the last two democratic administrations. one was her husband's. he would not have been president. the gennifer flowers scandal might have brought him down if she wouldn't have stood by him. she was critical to him
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i mean, i think president obama can now go back and say look at the fourth quarter of 2012. things are starting to work. one interesting note, though, his inaugural address got lots and lots of attention. one thing that wasn't really in there in any specificity was the economy. it's a way forward on how she thinks the next right steps or what he thinks the next right steps are on the economy. there's some sort of gray area here in where he wants to head. >> now, before we get to chuck hagel, the sort of train wreck that happened yesterday, ruth marcus, the white house is coming out or hhs is coming out with new rules to liberalize the guidelines so that religious institutions are somewhat insulated, somewhat more insulateded. first of all, they're going to more broadly define religious institutions. also, give a separate provider so that the religious institutions themselves don't have to provide birth control to their employees. >> well, first of all, you said white house, and even though hhs issues these guidelines, one can be fairly sure that the white house was closely f
i mean, i think president obama can now go back and say look at the fourth quarter of 2012. things are starting to work. one interesting note, though, his inaugural address got lots and lots of attention. one thing that wasn't really in there in any specificity was the economy. it's a way forward on how she thinks the next right steps or what he thinks the next right steps are on the economy. there's some sort of gray area here in where he wants to head. >> now, before we get to chuck...
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this is the agent day of political violence in egypt. >>> energy secretary steven chu is resigning. in a statement, president obama said chu helped move the country toward energy independence citing department programs in wind and solar power. chu will stay on until the end of the month and until a successor is confirmed. those are the headlines. back to tracy and ashley. ashley: rick folbaum, thanks so much. the u.s. economy added 157,000 jobs in january, while the unemployment rate it ticked up to 7.9% but today's report represents only a fraction of the 12 million americans looking for work. peter barnes joins us from the labor department with more on that story, peter? >> hey, ashley. 4.7 million of those 12 million people have been unemployed for 27 weeks or longer. that's about 40% of the stolt -- total unemployment. the white house is not doing any high-fives about the jobs report today but it will take it. the president's top economist alan krueger telling me this morning that the report and some other economic indicators paint a picture of an economy that is slowly healing
this is the agent day of political violence in egypt. >>> energy secretary steven chu is resigning. in a statement, president obama said chu helped move the country toward energy independence citing department programs in wind and solar power. chu will stay on until the end of the month and until a successor is confirmed. those are the headlines. back to tracy and ashley. ashley: rick folbaum, thanks so much. the u.s. economy added 157,000 jobs in january, while the unemployment rate...
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that is how much was spent on the 2012 political campaigns and that's enough to by 20 boeing 757s, or 50 private islands. that includes president obama and mitt romney as well as congressional candidates around the country. committees like the rnc and dnc spent $22 billion, and super packs spent another $22 billion, and election officials are still adding that number up, and this could be the first time outside groups spent more than political parties. >>> huh recall doua huh raueral. he could be a candidate. he supports gay rights and gay marriage. he already scoped out his potential opponents. check it out. >> i am and i have been in touch with some people in the republican party in new jersey, and i am truly contemplating running for senate against frank lattenburg or cory booker. >> that should be an interesting race. >>> secretary hillary clinton is hours away from leaving office. she says she is ready for rest after logging almost a million miles in the air as the nation's top diplomat. she is set to deliver her farewell speech in the next hour to the folks that she said in the
that is how much was spent on the 2012 political campaigns and that's enough to by 20 boeing 757s, or 50 private islands. that includes president obama and mitt romney as well as congressional candidates around the country. committees like the rnc and dnc spent $22 billion, and super packs spent another $22 billion, and election officials are still adding that number up, and this could be the first time outside groups spent more than political parties. >>> huh recall doua huh raueral....
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, we speak monolithically about race and racial subgroups in this country, and, yet, we look at the obama coalition, which everybody says it is the sort of american coalition moving forward. you know, to what degree do you think that really changes the racism in near term? we talked about immigration in the last segment, but is this something we're going to start feeling in 2014 and 2016 and 2020, or is this the, like, 25 year change? >> well, i think your blow-up about appropriation, that's something that we're going to see a lot of, right? it's something that's making people both in kind of what's left of there being a dominant culture and in minority communities incredibly uncomfortable. it's a culture that people feel increasingly comfortable pulling in things that used to be off limits in some way. there's a web culture where people are constantly picking things up and remixing them in ways that disturb their elders. i think some people are going to have to get used to. >> that's you embodying that givening the fact that you are able to make an incredible 76-layer nacho dip for -- >>
, we speak monolithically about race and racial subgroups in this country, and, yet, we look at the obama coalition, which everybody says it is the sort of american coalition moving forward. you know, to what degree do you think that really changes the racism in near term? we talked about immigration in the last segment, but is this something we're going to start feeling in 2014 and 2016 and 2020, or is this the, like, 25 year change? >> well, i think your blow-up about appropriation,...
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to hear more patient stories, visit lyrica.com. >>> to politics now, where president obama is expected to sign a bill that suspends the debt ceiling until may. the senate passed it, 64-34 yesterday. even though it puts off the debt ceiling debate until spring, the treasury says it could pay the nation's bills through this summer. >>> the federal elections commission says 7 billion with a b dollars spent on the 2012 campaign. that's not just the presidential election. it's all the candidates, parties and outside groups. >>> mitt romney's campaign quietly gave $90,000 to the red cross at the end of november. the donation was made about a month after hurricane sandy hit the east coast. >>> move over corey booker. geraldo rivera is considering running for u.s. senate in new jersey. the 69-year-old made the announcement on his radio show. >>> and bradley cooper is using his celebrity to draw attention to mental illness at a washington news conference. in his movie, "silver linings playbook" he plays a man with bipolar disorder. he and patrick kennedy are holding a news conference to talk ab
to hear more patient stories, visit lyrica.com. >>> to politics now, where president obama is expected to sign a bill that suspends the debt ceiling until may. the senate passed it, 64-34 yesterday. even though it puts off the debt ceiling debate until spring, the treasury says it could pay the nation's bills through this summer. >>> the federal elections commission says 7 billion with a b dollars spent on the 2012 campaign. that's not just the presidential election. it's all...
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charles: time to forget about being politically correct and do the right thing. mike lee to president obama. all stations come over to mission a for a final go. this is for real this time. step seven point two one two. rify and lock. command is locked. five seconds. three, two, one. standing by for capture. the most innovative software on the planet... dragon is captured. is connecting today's leading companies to places beyond it. siemens. answers. your big picture. e with the fidelity guided portfolio summary, you choose which accounts to track and use fidelity's analytics to spot trends, gain insights, and figure out what you want to do next. all in one place. i'm meredith stoddard and i helped create the fidelity guided portfolio summary. it's one more innovative reason serious investors are choosing fidelity. now get 200 free trades when you open an account. charles: new numbers tell us the cheapest health plan for families under obamacare, will cost $20,000 by 2016. health-insurance repay a penalty. and how much families will and how much they will be penal
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martha: a rough road for president obama's pick to lead our department of defense. why political watchers are saying that chuck hagel's confirmation at this hearing was an absolute mess. so what is going to happen with this? we'll be right back with senator blount. >> iranian foreign ministry so strongly supports your nomination to be the secretary of defense? >> i have a difficult enough time with american politics. senator, i have no idea, but thank you an ] ring. ring. progresso. i just served my mother-in-law your chicken noodle soup but she loved it so much... i told her it was homemade. everyone tells a little white lie now and then. but now she wants my recipe [ clears his throat ] [ softly ] she's right behind me isn't she? [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup. two. three. my credit card rewards are easy to remember with the bankamericard cash rewards credit card. earn 1% cash back everywhere, every time. [ both ] 2% back on groceries. [ all ] 3% on gas. no hoops to jump through. i earn more cash back on the things i buy the most. [ woman
martha: a rough road for president obama's pick to lead our department of defense. why political watchers are saying that chuck hagel's confirmation at this hearing was an absolute mess. so what is going to happen with this? we'll be right back with senator blount. >> iranian foreign ministry so strongly supports your nomination to be the secretary of defense? >> i have a difficult enough time with american politics. senator, i have no idea, but thank you an ] ring. ring. progresso....
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simply did not want to spend a lot of political capital on his nominee. even though the ones that were higher profile that you could see this could be an example of a progressive how want to take the court sort of you. say good we live in the ninth circuit, now on the california supreme court. the president simply did not put any -- twisting arms or use of any political capital. now after reelection maybe we'll start doing that. of course he also had two supreme court appointments that took up a lot of time and energy. but i don't think that can explain a whole do. i don't think we'll have more supreme court vacancies for a while. all the justices seemed to like what they are doing. ruth bader ginsburg is the oldest one. she's currently 79. she said that god bless you, she survived cancer three times and wants to stay on at least as long as her hero brandes, proud of what had a republican appointed her successes of my that should be resigned at some point in 2015. the big cases this term of the supreme court, there's one an affirmative action, at the univ
simply did not want to spend a lot of political capital on his nominee. even though the ones that were higher profile that you could see this could be an example of a progressive how want to take the court sort of you. say good we live in the ninth circuit, now on the california supreme court. the president simply did not put any -- twisting arms or use of any political capital. now after reelection maybe we'll start doing that. of course he also had two supreme court appointments that took up...
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obama learned this early on. he had a four year head start and with his data machine, they built a kind of grassroots tactical edge that is the model of politics. my favorite example of this is that the obama campaign actually hired a guy in cleveland who is sole job it was to go to work shops all day he'd go to one barbershop, then another, he'd sit around talk to people, what are the hopes and dreams. what is going on in the family. what are their financial problems. so when it came time to turn them out on election day, it's like turning out your friend. now i don't care how much money you put into media buys you cannot done kate that connection with voters. it seems that strategists are catching on. but there has to be a caveyot. 2012 was not 2010. 2010 i would say was a policy referendum on policy issues, healthcare, bailout spending. 2012 at the end of the day was a personality contest at the presidential level. mitt romney was the next white guy in line and like bob dole. no doubt republicans will lose tha
obama learned this early on. he had a four year head start and with his data machine, they built a kind of grassroots tactical edge that is the model of politics. my favorite example of this is that the obama campaign actually hired a guy in cleveland who is sole job it was to go to work shops all day he'd go to one barbershop, then another, he'd sit around talk to people, what are the hopes and dreams. what is going on in the family. what are their financial problems. so when it came time to...
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very painful for the obama administration and now another attack so soon what are the political implications there. well it i you know way that it was surprising that when girls issue did not play as big into the election campaign as one might expected before mr obama was reelected now he does face the problems he has been reelected but he was reelected if you are domestic reasons to some extent saying he was shutting down america's involvement in the outside world. but now of course he is likely to find himself been drawn in directly at any rate into issues to do with security in turkey into issues across the whole of africa the americans maybe let you read french. british play a lead role with north africa but of course american intelligence assets american military advice on how to what is going to and the risk must be large american institutions and diplomatic buildings on could be talking to dos with mark almond professor of international relations at bill kant university in turkey thank you for your analysis thank you. in other news the first man convicted over america's torture progra
very painful for the obama administration and now another attack so soon what are the political implications there. well it i you know way that it was surprising that when girls issue did not play as big into the election campaign as one might expected before mr obama was reelected now he does face the problems he has been reelected but he was reelected if you are domestic reasons to some extent saying he was shutting down america's involvement in the outside world. but now of course he is...
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very painful for the obama administration and now another attack so soon what are the political implications there. well it's you know way that it was surprising that when going to shoot did not play as begin to the election campaign as one might expect to well mr obama was reelected now he does face the problems he has been reelected but he was really domestic reasons to some extent saying he was shutting down america's involvement in the outside world. but now of course he is likely to find a job being drawn in directly at any rate into issues to do security and talk people into issues and cost who the americans may be letting we french and british play a lead role in north africa but of course american intelligence assets american military advice and so on a big part of what is going to and the risk must be large american institutions and diplomatic buildings on could be talking to dos well mark almond professor of international relations at bill can't university in turkey thank you for your analysis thank you. in other news the first man convicted over america's torture program is now on
very painful for the obama administration and now another attack so soon what are the political implications there. well it's you know way that it was surprising that when going to shoot did not play as begin to the election campaign as one might expect to well mr obama was reelected now he does face the problems he has been reelected but he was really domestic reasons to some extent saying he was shutting down america's involvement in the outside world. but now of course he is likely to find a...
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and as we well know, the people in the white house are experts at calculating president obama's political interest. and they're going to say, you know, how is this going to go? and they're also experts at looking at the question, and they will relook at it, is chuck hagel the right person for this job? because we may be going into four years of foreign policy and defense dust-ups and serious confrontations. this, arguably, is the most important cabinet appointment. as we learned in the susan rice non-nomination for secretary of state, they're willing in the white house to say, now, wait a minute. this isn't working out. this may not be the right person. and take that short-term hit. i think the real issue is how does the white house really look at it? i think now they're just going to wait it out. but time may not be on their side. >> chuck, it's donny. i want to go back to something you said about running the mock hearing. >> yeah. >> he could -- and i'd like to know what the white house's position or response to this is. you literally could have prepped him in seven minutes. there are b
and as we well know, the people in the white house are experts at calculating president obama's political interest. and they're going to say, you know, how is this going to go? and they're also experts at looking at the question, and they will relook at it, is chuck hagel the right person for this job? because we may be going into four years of foreign policy and defense dust-ups and serious confrontations. this, arguably, is the most important cabinet appointment. as we learned in the susan...
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. >> longtime columnist and political analyst mark shields on his career in politics and the washington press corps sunday night at 8 on c-span's "q&a." >> now, an american enterprise institute forum on how president obama may approach foreign policy and national security in his second term. over the next hour and 20 minutes, panelists examine issues including sequestration, syria's several war and the nuclear programs in iran and north korea. [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon, folks. can i get everybody to sit down and chew quietly? thank you. i think we're going to start here. good afternoon, everybody. i'm danielle pletka, i'm the vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at the american enterprise institute. welcome to the first of our annual series in state of the union policy events. every year aei scholars come together, and we look forward to the challenges of the year ahead and policy questions that have been raised and are likely to come up and try and look forward a little bit, think a little bit about what the right answers are to the questions that are
. >> longtime columnist and political analyst mark shields on his career in politics and the washington press corps sunday night at 8 on c-span's "q&a." >> now, an american enterprise institute forum on how president obama may approach foreign policy and national security in his second term. over the next hour and 20 minutes, panelists examine issues including sequestration, syria's several war and the nuclear programs in iran and north korea. [inaudible conversations]...
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trying to stop president obama from continuing to modernize u.s. nuclear strategy, to reduce the cost and the expense and the saliency of this obsolete arsenal. >> politically it will be amazing if the republican party decides they want to go all curtis le may on this issue. but i almost welcome it. joe cirincione, president of the ploughshares fund. always great to have you here. >> thanks very much, rachel. >>> republicans have got anne round recently to saying that they have a problem attracting women voters. what they are actually doing about that problem will not help with that problem. details ahead. >>> we love maps. ♪ >>> we love maps. maps tell us important things like for example what parts of the country like which pro like for example what parts of the country like which pro football teams according to facebook? people still like the cowboys. weird. we also love electoral maps. we just spent one solid year looking at them not change very much every single day. thanks, nate silver. on the road i still enjoy that old scrunched up road m
trying to stop president obama from continuing to modernize u.s. nuclear strategy, to reduce the cost and the expense and the saliency of this obsolete arsenal. >> politically it will be amazing if the republican party decides they want to go all curtis le may on this issue. but i almost welcome it. joe cirincione, president of the ploughshares fund. always great to have you here. >> thanks very much, rachel. >>> republicans have got anne round recently to saying that they...
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why can't politics be a matter of belief and honest disagreement, not hatred? why the sick little intramurals we saw today? we begin with senator jeanne shaheen of new hampshire. i want you to watch this back-and-forth between john mccain and the witness today, chuck hagel. let's take a look. >> were you correct or incorrect when you said that the surge would be the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since vietnam? were you correct or incorrect? >> my -- >> yes or no. >> my reference -- >> can you answer the question, senator hagel? the question is, were you right or wrong? that's a pretty straightforward question. >> well -- >> i would like to answer whether you were right or wrong, and then you are free to elaborate. >> well, i'm not going to give you a yes or no answer -- >> well, let the record show you refused to answer this question. now, please go ahead. >> if you would like me to explain why -- >> i actually would like an answer. yes or no. >> well, i'm not going to give you a yes or no. i think it's far more complicated than that, as
why can't politics be a matter of belief and honest disagreement, not hatred? why the sick little intramurals we saw today? we begin with senator jeanne shaheen of new hampshire. i want you to watch this back-and-forth between john mccain and the witness today, chuck hagel. let's take a look. >> were you correct or incorrect when you said that the surge would be the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since vietnam? were you correct or incorrect? >> my -- >>...
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and i think that president obama gave a terrific inaugural address. i was so pleased by his words on climate, for example, and i know we'll have a chance to come back to that. it's only one of the six drivers of change here. but on immigration i think he drove that issue home. as he did on gay rights ich i thought was a wonderful part of the speech. and i think that we are seeing our nation change right before our eyes. partly as a result of this election. >> you have changed in december of 2012, you wrote a piece in rolling stone, very tough on the president. >> i think it was back in the summer of 2012. >> tough on the president, saying it wasn't using the bully pulpit. saying he hadn't done all he could on climate change and yet once you saw the inaugural speech you seem to have changed your sense of him and your aessmt of what he prepared to do, that perhaps he was prepared to do, what you had hoped he would do in the first term and move on climate change. >> well, i think that a lot has happened over the last year. and the piece you referred to w
and i think that president obama gave a terrific inaugural address. i was so pleased by his words on climate, for example, and i know we'll have a chance to come back to that. it's only one of the six drivers of change here. but on immigration i think he drove that issue home. as he did on gay rights ich i thought was a wonderful part of the speech. and i think that we are seeing our nation change right before our eyes. partly as a result of this election. >> you have changed in december...
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they got elected on principle, not on politics. >> narrator: as the week wore on, obama began to worry about the grand bargain. >> he calls boehner that night and leaves a voicemail. boehner doesn't ck up. >> the president said, "get back to me tonight, john." the president didn't hear. i think he called me around 10:00, 10:30 and said, "have you heard anything?" i said no. i tried to reach the speaker and i had his cell phone, and he didn't answer. which is very unlike him, because he always answered his cell phone. i reported that i hadn't heard back from him yet. so we were, there was... trying to figure out what the hell was going on here. >> the white house, they get kind of angry as time goes on, because they start to understand that they're getting double-crossed in some way and boehner won't call back. >> narrator: by friday, speaker boehner called a press conference. >> we get this announcement that there's going to be a briefing in boehner's conference room. we don't know. we still think there's a deal. we think this is to announce a deal. and i get to the conference room, an
they got elected on principle, not on politics. >> narrator: as the week wore on, obama began to worry about the grand bargain. >> he calls boehner that night and leaves a voicemail. boehner doesn't ck up. >> the president said, "get back to me tonight, john." the president didn't hear. i think he called me around 10:00, 10:30 and said, "have you heard anything?" i said no. i tried to reach the speaker and i had his cell phone, and he didn't answer. which...
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and i think that president obama gave a terrific inaugural address. i was so pleased by his words on climate, for example, and i know we'll have a chance to come back to that. it's only one of the six drivers of change here. but on immigration i think he drove that issue home. as he did on gay rights which i thought was a wonderful part of the speech. and i think that we are seeing our nation change right before our eyes. partly as a result of this election. >> you have changed in december of 12, you wrote a piece in rolling stone, very tough on the president. >> i think it was back in the summer of 2012. >> tough on the president, saying it wasn't using the bully pulpit. saying he hadn't done all he could on climate change and yet once you saw the inaugural speech you seem to have changed your sense of him and your assessment of what he is prepared to do, that perhaps he was prepared to do, what you had hoped he would do in the first term and move on climate change. >> well, i think that a lot has happened over the last year. and the piece you referr
and i think that president obama gave a terrific inaugural address. i was so pleased by his words on climate, for example, and i know we'll have a chance to come back to that. it's only one of the six drivers of change here. but on immigration i think he drove that issue home. as he did on gay rights which i thought was a wonderful part of the speech. and i think that we are seeing our nation change right before our eyes. partly as a result of this election. >> you have changed in...
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trying to stop president obama from continuing to modernize u.s. nuclear strategy, to reduce the cost and the expense and the saliency of this obsolete arsenal. >> politically it will be amazing if the republican party decides they want to go all curtis le may on this issue. but i almost welcome it. joe cirincione, president of the ploughshares fund. always great to have you here. >> thanks very much, rachel. >>> republicans have got anne round recently to saying that they have a problem attracting women voters. what they are actually doing about that problem will not help with that problem. details ahead. [ male announcer ] citi turns 200 this year. in that time there've been some good days. and some difficult ones. but, through it all, we've persevered, supporting some of the biggest ideas in modern history. so why should our anniversary matter to you? because for 200 years, we've been helping ideas move from ambition to achievement. and the next great idea could be yours. ♪ and the next great idea could be yours. do you guys ride? well... no.
trying to stop president obama from continuing to modernize u.s. nuclear strategy, to reduce the cost and the expense and the saliency of this obsolete arsenal. >> politically it will be amazing if the republican party decides they want to go all curtis le may on this issue. but i almost welcome it. joe cirincione, president of the ploughshares fund. always great to have you here. >> thanks very much, rachel. >>> republicans have got anne round recently to saying that they...
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. >> i think they want to say, they are helping people out, and they look putting out this political balloon, saying look what we're doing. but you are rice. the modification programs, first thing president obama did in offers was a modification program that did not work for this reason, they put so many restricts on it, that people who met them did not have to give up their homes, look the government policies is what got us in this, the government needs to back out and let the market settle. tom: i thought they were, i had hope, i want to go over this again, to qualify, you have to dim straight a hardship, and -- demonstrate a hardship, and not be behind on your payments, if yoifyou have a hardship, you are probably behind on payments and a debt of 55 percent of your income, that is steep. that is another show about whether we should step in and let the market take effect. this is and the fees to pay 20% of assets? they don't have the money. >> tom this is r, this is a typical government program, if you are current on your mortgage payment, up to march,ive month, most likely have yo
. >> i think they want to say, they are helping people out, and they look putting out this political balloon, saying look what we're doing. but you are rice. the modification programs, first thing president obama did in offers was a modification program that did not work for this reason, they put so many restricts on it, that people who met them did not have to give up their homes, look the government policies is what got us in this, the government needs to back out and let the market...
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it worked, but it is terribly damaging to the nation's economy and their political capital. with something like 90% in august of 2011 and they recognize this is a bad idea. thing is a pretty bad idea of a downgrade for the first time. they didn't want to do that again, but they didn't want to vote for a thicker national debt either. that doesn't care what their philosophy to pick them up with a strategy and in the meantime we want the senate to pass a budget for 2014 and the law says if either chamber fails a budget, paychecks will be docked. the whole idea is to postpone the economy default situation until the prosecutor at the continuing fight over taxes and then made to a point where both sides are satisfied in the debt limit can be raised again. >> how a template of a increasing the deficit in effect the economy and financial markets? >> where do you know the answer. it's sort of jan at the bill and i went to expect this. when initially proposed, some analysts say it's for uncertain, we can't keep raising the debt limit for threatening to default after a few. so far it's
it worked, but it is terribly damaging to the nation's economy and their political capital. with something like 90% in august of 2011 and they recognize this is a bad idea. thing is a pretty bad idea of a downgrade for the first time. they didn't want to do that again, but they didn't want to vote for a thicker national debt either. that doesn't care what their philosophy to pick them up with a strategy and in the meantime we want the senate to pass a budget for 2014 and the law says if either...